William Blake Quotes
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!
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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !
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All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
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O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
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Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.